• Higher Education in ‘The Present...

  

  26th January 2026

  As my colleagues and I prepare for the next step in our research project ‘What’s the “Use” in Higher Education’, focussing on how the contemporary and diverse landscapes of universities...
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• Book Review: The War on Science

  

  13th November 2025

  The War on Science edited by Lawrence M. Krauss Book cover for Krauss (2025). Taken from the Forum catalogue. Forum, 2025. ISBN: 9781800756182, Hbk. ISBN: 9781800756199, eBook. RRP: £16.39 /...
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• Resisting the ‘AI gospel’: The...

  

  3rd October 2025

  In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge of advancement and popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. With the publication of several UNESCO (2019; 2021; 2023) documents...
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• Polymathy Lost: On the politics of...

  

  21st July 2025

  (Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)  What is to be done except learn all we can about everything we can? Education is a force of civilisation. Through it we have...
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• Is Philosophy just making stuff up?...

  

  25th June 2025

  One of the most awkward parts of attending conferences, or indeed any work related event, is the requirement to explain what I do. On the train from Sheffield to Oxford for the PESGB annual...
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• The selfless Teacher

  

  24th March 2023

  It was alarming, recently, when attending a conference, to hear, once again, a narrative concerning teachers needing to be ‘courageous’ and ‘selfless role-models’ for others. Language that,...
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• Thinking or thinking well? An antidote...

  

  3rd October 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   ***   Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time...
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